content recommendation

Outbrain is announcing that it has raised $35 million in new funding.
If you’ve ever read an article and found a widget at the bottom recommending stories you might also like (which can come from multiple sites), there’s a good chance those recommendations were provided by Outbrain. It’s not the only content recommendation service, but in my experience it remains the best… Read More

Content discovery service Outbrain is announcing that it has hired Jeff Davison as its chief financial officer.
The news comes about a day after multiple reports from Israel (where Outbrain has offices and its technical team, although it’s headquartered in New York) stating that the company is preparing for an initial public offering — Globes said Outbrain would try to raise… Read More

Here’s another startup trying to turn content recommendation into a business: Ideal Media.
Similar in concept to Outbrain and Taboola, Ideal Media works with publishers to add a recommended content unit to their pages. Then it makes money by including sponsored content in the mix. You can see an example in the recommended content under this photo on the OneBigPhoto site (there’s… Read More